The plant hunter a scientist's quest for nature's next medicines
"A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for gra...
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[New York] :
Viking,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Nature. 1. My leg and the wilderness
- 2. Welcome to the jungle
- 3. Worms in the belly
- 4. An unexpected houseguest
- Infection. 5. Wash and fold
- 6. From the field to the lab
- 7. Babies and biofilms-- 8. A lab of my own
- Medicine. 9. The sea cabbage
- 10. Billy fell off the swing
- 11. The one-legged hunter
- 12. Cassandra's curse
- Epilogue.
